>> well, i had already met daniel. i had lived over there for a few months in 2010 and spent a great deal of time with him. i completed my dossier. the region created a law banning u.s. adoptions before the country did. and that was just recently changed but, unfortunately, not enough time for me to kind of squeeze in before putin signed this law. >> i want to hear more about daniel. i know he's 13. he has fetal alcohol syndrome. and as i understand it, one of the last times you were with him he said he didn't want to live if he didn't get adopted. is that the case? >> that is, but that's very common. when children age out of the orphanage at 16, there aren't many prospects for them, a number of them commit suicide. the last time i visited daniel, he had just found another child from the orphanage had hanged himself and daniel was the one that found him. it's very common. when i spoke to him there in june 2011 and talked about the possibility of adoption and what would happen if it didn't work through, he would say --